An investigative report by the Mexican media outlet has allegedly
uncovered new evidence in the case of the 43 massacred students. It
claims that the Federal Police was directly involved in the attack,
contrary to the authorities’ statements.

The investigation conducted with help from the Investigative
Reporting Program of UC Berkeley and published in Proceso
magazine claims that state and federal authorities were
tracking the students’ movements on September 26 in real-time,
and did nothing to prevent their abduction and consequent murder.
In fact, police directly attacked the youths, the report claims.

People protest demanding justice and clarification of the disappearance
of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, on December 6, 2014 at the revolution
monument in Mexico City. (AFP Photo/Yuri Cortez)

The Proceso probe, so far unconfirmed, is based on documents from
an initial state-level investigation before it was taken over by
the Feds in October. The student’s movements were allegedly
tracked by a government information command post – known as a C4,
Control, Command, Communications and Computer Center. Reporters
Anabel Hernandez and Steve Fisher also reviewed hundreds of
government documents that they say indicate federal police were
in Iguala and allegedly shot at the students.

According to the leaked documents by Guerrero state authorities
that was delivered to Mexico’s Secretary of the Interior, the
logs from the C4 indicade that the 43 students have left their
campus from Ayotzinapa towards Iguala at 17:59 on September 26.

By 20:00 federal and state authorities arrived at a road where
the students were holding a fundraiser for the protest, the
report said. At 21:22 federal agents were told the students
entered a bus station. At 21:40 the first shots were fired.

Protesters march demanding justice and clarification of the
disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, on December 6, 2014 in
Mexico City.
(AFP Photo/Yuri Cortez)

“We have information that proves the federal government knew
what was happening in the moment it was happening, and
participated in it,” Hernández, the lead reporter for the
Proceso, told the Huffington Post. “The government has tried
to hide this information.”

“When we see that the federal government and the state
government were following the students since they left the
college in Ayotzinapa, it becomes very difficult to think that
everything else that happened was an accident,” she told MCS
Noticias radio station.

As part of the investigation, Proceso magazine included a video
allegedly recorded by the students while they were being shot at.

The new revelations contradict the official version of the
investigation which states that the police authorities had no
prior knowledge of the plot to abduct the students. Investigative
version stipulated that the students were attacked by order
Iguala’s mayor, Jose Luis Abarca, and his wife, María de los
Angeles Pineda Villa, before being transferred to the cartel
Guerreros Unidos.

Furthermore, according to Proceso the attack on the students was
directed at the ideology Normal School of Ayotzinapa, as some of
the students were part of the Student Action Committee with 10 of
the victims were “political activists in training” of
the Comité de Orientación Política e Ideológica (Committee on
Political and Ideological Orientation).

“It was surprising to see how much information was available
to the government and yet they chose to directly put the blame on
the municipal police and the mayor,” Fisher told BuzzFeed
News. “There are people within the federal government and
within the military that should be investigated.”

People shout slogans during a protest march at Tecoanapa, in Guerrero State, Mexico (AFP Photo / Pedro Pardo)

The documents also detail signs of torture on the bodies of
witnesses giving testimony in the initial investigation – they
include black eyes, neck marks and bruising on the body, while
one witness had red marks everywhere, indicating that he/she was
given an electric shock.

It follows that “the version given by the federal government,
by the attorney general’s office, is based solely on testimony by
presumed drug traffickers,” according to Hernandez.
"What we found is that, in at least five cases, these
testimonies were obtained using torture.”

This would make evidence in the case inadmissible, as torture is
prohibited under Mexican law, casting further doubt on the
validity of the entire official investigation.

Spanish-language news source Univision.com on Saturday wrote a
scathing comment on the latest findings,
saying that “there’s no way the Pena Nieto government can say
they didn’t know what was happening.”

After the disappearances, Pena Nieto pledged to bring corrupt
local authorities under the “rule of law.” He addressed
congress with a 10-point plan on reforming local authorities, who
are often ill-controlled in the country’s municipalities.

The measure is aimed at stopping the collusion between local
governments, police and gangs. The plan involves redefining
powers in the penal code and adopting a special crime-battling
law. He also wants to get rid of municipal police and substitute
it for a federal force to fight crime in the heavily
crime-infested states and towns.

Mexicans don’t believe him. The country continues to firmly
occupy the position of one of the most dangerous places to be:
kidnappings, gun violence, drug crime and carnage are
commonplace. People have been coming out in droves since the
students’ abduction and the subsequent discoveries of mass
graves.

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